suse-su-2025:03221-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-09-15 09:36
Modified
2025-09-15 09:36
Summary
Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP7)
Notes
Title of the patch
Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP7)
Description of the patch
This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150700_53_6 fixes several issues.
The following security issue was fixed:
- CVE-2025-38212: ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU (bsc#1246030).
Patchnames
SUSE-2025-3221,SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP7-2025-3221
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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